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VENUTI, Ridolfino. Accurata e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichità di Roma. Rome: Battista Bernabò and Giuseppe Lazzarini, 1763.
4° (272 x 204mm), 2 parts. Half-titles, engraved vignette to both titles, one folding engraved map and 96 plates, some by Piranesi, 2 engraved headpieces and 2 vignettes. (Lacking the blank B4, pp. 64/65 transposed.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, red morocco label (extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, a good copy. Cicognara 3905; Olschki Choix 18214; Schudt 769.
4° (272 x 204mm), 2 parts. Half-titles, engraved vignette to both titles, one folding engraved map and 96 plates, some by Piranesi, 2 engraved headpieces and 2 vignettes. (Lacking the blank B4, pp. 64/65 transposed.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, red morocco label (extremities lightly rubbed).
FIRST EDITION, a good copy. Cicognara 3905; Olschki Choix 18214; Schudt 769.